Beijing 2008 - The Official Video Game of the Olympic Games
Gasgoo.com (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
BEIJING (AP) — Beijing will ban half of its 3.4 million cars from the roads during periods of very heavy pollution, a state news report said Friday.
Susan Polgar Chess Blog (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Asian Teams Sweep Pairs Rapid at WMSG! Saturday, 11 October 2008 09:56 After a hiccup to Pairs Blitz Winners Ecuador in the fourth round, hosts China finally hit form and led a sweep of Asian teams into the Semi-Finals of the Pairs Rapid at the 1st World Mind Sports Games. China, again fielding GM Ni Hua and Hou Yifan, were very convincing winners of the preminaries with 15 match points. Hou is finally...
Geostrategy (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
The global financial crisis will hit trade between China and Africa, but Beijing will keep expanding its investment in the continent to maintain strong ties, senior officials said on Thursday. Sino-African trade reached $74-billion in the first eight months, up 62% from a year earlier. "We cannot be very optimistic about sustaining such growth," said Zhou Yabin, head of the Africa department at the...
Travelblog (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
On day 2 it's our last day in Beijing so there is a bit of a panic among the group to see everything we possibly can The pressure We meet a local tour guide Kevin first thing in the morning and he takes us over to Tian'anmen Square. We can barely delay here to take pictures as Kevin is anxious to keep us moving there are loads and loads of guards around the place and Kevin tells us n
rejon.org (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
While I’m building-up my mental engines in Cao Chang Di (Cultural Industries) in Beijing, I received an invitation to speak at Gnome’s first Asia conference, aptly titled, Gnome.Asia in Beijing. I’m going to take a crack and speak about something I haven’t been directly been involved in hacking, promoting or developing, but have been using [...]
Travelblog (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Finally we're making a blog entry of some significance......We started on the tour going from Beijing to Kathmandu anyway..........there are 9 of us in the group including the leader Zshoka who is Hungarian. There are 2 English guys a Canadian guy a Scottish guy Joe a Danish girl aFrench girl an Australian girl and an Irish girl me. There is one other couple apart from ourselves and
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
Beijing will ban half of its 3.4 million cars from the roads during periods of very heavy pollution, a state news report said Friday.
MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
LONDON (AP) -Winning an Olympic gold medal hasn't erased Dwyane Wade's painful memories of a dismal last season with the Miami Heat.
Financial Time (Free subscription) | yesterday
The only way to get a true feel for the Forbidden City, the vast moated palace built 600 years ago for China's emperors, is to peer into its grand multi-eved halls,...
SI.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
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Daily Mail online | Sport (Free subscription) | yesterday
Unlike her fellow gold medallists who have understandably been riding the celebrity gravy train, Nicole Cooke has been otherwise occupied with world championships.
Restaurant News Ressource (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Inc. (NYSE:KKD) announced today that it has entered into an agreement with KKD Lotte Holdings Company, Ltd. for the development of approximately 35 Krispy Kreme retail locations over the next four to five years in the metropolitan areas of Shanghai, Beijing and Tianjin, China. Lotte is also Krispy Kreme's franchisee in the Republic of Korea and Japan.
China e-Lobby (Free subscription) | yesterday
As I write this, the Bush Administration is preparing their latest surrender to North Korea. Never mind that the Stalinists have basically refused to make any effort to verify that their out of the nuclear weapons business; never mind that when pressured to verify, they responded by rebuilding their nuclear program . We're going to give in to their demand to take them off the terror-sponsoring list...
Susan Polgar Chess Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Ecuador With Sensational Win in Beijing Category - Pair Blitz Men and Women IM Martha Fierro and GM Franco Matamoros have achieved historic success by winning the gold medal in mixed blitz doubles at the World Mind Sport Games . The South American team fought their way to the top by battling the heavy-weights. They beat China (Ni Hua and Hou Yifan) in the 11th round of the regular competition to qualify...
Pacific Epoch (Free subscription) | yesterday
Best Buy (NYSE: BBY) plans to open its first Beijing store in the Scitech Plaza in November, reports Beijing Morning Post quoting a Plaza advertisement. The 480-square-meter store will be co-operated with Scitech, said a related individual. Best Buy opened its second domestic flagship near Shanghai's...
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kellya | 12/08/2008
One of the most controversial female French athletes, Laure Manadou, is qualified for 3 finals and one semifinal at the Olympics in Beijing. She is having a rough time in and out the pool due to the nude photos and sex tapes rumors. Everyone wondered if she was strong enough to leave all the rumors behind and compete with a clear mind and actually qualify and maybe win a medal at the Olympics. In Dunkrik,
